8 Reasons Why I'm Growing More Perennial Foods in 2024
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Pepper plants are perennials in tropical regions. If you move them inside (house or greenhouse) for the winter or overwinter them without leaves in a shed or garage you can replant them in the ground in the spring and just have earlier peppers and bigger plants each year. Tomatoes you can root the suckers and have them grow over the winter so not a true perennial but still a cheaper and quicker way to get tomatoes the next year.
I’d like to know more about growing fruit trees in greenhouse/tunnel Would you do a video with more information about this?
Same here! I’d like to know.
Last year I bought 2 plum trees and a damson tree in containers. I wasn't ready to plant as the weather was so bad so they waited outside. Add terrible winds and all three were blown over. I went to retrieve them and the plums had lost nearly all their leaves with tons of slugs on them. The damson didn't have any slug damage. It happened yet again despite being wedged up - the slugs got the remaining leaves on the plums. I showed a neighbour and although the plants were standing upright, there was a slug marching up the trunk, almost at the top of one of the plums. Needless to say there is no sign of life with one plum, the other is shooting from the base - perhaps a sucker from the rootstock and the damson is covered with flowers. Slugs are determined beasts and some trees are not immune!
I got a half dead redcurrant from hombase 2 yrs ago for 79p. Left it in it's pot in a messy corner till I found it again last month, Nealry three feet tall, and bushy. . I've planted it and it's covered in little brackets of flowers. It's going to thrive.
Amazing! And when you prune it this winter you can make a load more free plants😍
Listening to you talking about adding more and more perennials is beginning to sound like us 80-year-olds.. 😀😀😀
The entirety of North America used to be one continuous food-forest/range-ranch. Look into what's already growing in your area. It's the future.
The problem is the WEF want Human free zones so having access to growing your own food will become limited especially when Billionaires are buying up all the land.
by design
My woods are full of black walnut, American persimmons, crabapples, etc
@@gardenofseeden In winter I'd recommend taking cuttings and replanting them all over. The more persimmons the better, I say.
@@ibrstellar1080 You know nothing about the WEF. Most billionaires (who are buying up all the land as you say) hate it, because it serves as a check on their power.
I have (what I believe are) Egyptian Walking Onions in clumps. I harvest one or two at a time but don't pull them out of the ground. Instead, I cut them a few inches above the soil. They regrow and come back every year.
Sounds like you have everlasting onions. I have walking onions, you know them because they bulb on top and the weight of the bulbils drop to the earth where they root and sprout more onions - hence "walking"
@@sinkintostillness Yep, that's what mine do, too! Last year, I cut the tops from several and planted them under wood chips near a large pine tree and they're growing. I didn't need more but just wanted to "see." My onions begin growing before anything else.
@@PeytonWind they're great aren't they! I feel like the season is finally starting when I see the green popping up from them
I just visited the local growing place foodforest section, because i was done with the not wanting to grow seeds from the store that i know are fertile. So i now focus way more on a perennial veg garden rather then an annual one. Comes down to onion family, leafy greens, roots/tubers, herbs and fruits + some plants mainly/only for the rabbits. Will try or buy some courgette plants after last frost for more bulk veg. and green beans in the freezer.
Let me tell you Huw! Thats exactly what I was thinking after planting 80 tomatoes yesterday =)
Great video and thanks for the inspiration.
Wow 80! I don't think you have enough😉
@@HuwRichards Never enough! ;)
Looking at your drone footage, I feel like you can relate!
something that I'm trying out this year, and that might interest you as well; this year I'm incorparting mushroom spores in my veg beds, to benefit plants but also as an extra crop. I recently saw a very cool video by "Anne of all Trades" on building a new bed, and she used winecap-spores in her woodchip-mulch. Seemed to work really well. I trying it with grey oysters instead, and quite looking forward to see how it works out.
it's not spores, but mycelium you want to be planting. also the wood chips need to be hardwood and fresh, or dried fresh
The work-life-garden balance, great topic. Thank you!
Thanks Huw! I already love perennials and you gave me even more reasons. I wish I knew of more veg perennials. I'm trying to move my garden to being less time intensive, and perennials are definitely a component. As always, great filming :) Love seeing images of what you're talking about.
Hi Huw,
it's funny, how alike our thinking is. Today I planted my broccoli seedlings out. One week and the tomatoes will come too. Keep working on the garden! From Hungary
I have been gradually adding more perennials to my full-size allotment that I took on two years ago. It helps my workload to become more manageable, and I am happy to see trees and plants in the ground all year round. I like your point about saving on the amount of compost by having perennials. I make as much as possible, but it has been a big expense to buy in. Thank you for mentioning broad-forking, as well as adding organic material to soil that has been compacted by rain over winter.
Great video Huw, I'm looking to add native apple trees and hazelnut trees to my garden. Ive got lots of rhubarb and herbs that come back year after year but am guilty of planting lots of annuals which are a lot of work. I would love more ideas of easy perennials for wet Irish weather that are resistant to slugs. Ive also got blueberries and raspberries so I'm looking forward to having those every year 😊
Hello Huw, thank you for another interesting point of view. I also would like to grow a szechuan pepper tree, I am looking where to buy one. You can also ground ripe seeds of nasturtium as an alternative for pepper. Have a lovely day!
Thank you. I have learned so many new things from you today.
My perennial fruit orchard showed loads of blossoms this year first time after 5 growing years! I was so happy imagining this years harvest of local fruits but also exitoc pawpaws, kaki, mulberry, szechuan peppers....😢the -5° frost killed all young blossoms, maybe next year. So this year I am happy to have my annual veggies... hopefully.
What a fantastic video Huw...crikey, thank you ❤❤❤❤
You're most welcome ☺️
Don’t forget about the ornamentals you already have in your yard. Day lilies, spiderwort, hostas,redbuds, altheas, are all edibles. We just think of them as too pretty to eat. We’ve lost touch with eating with the seasons. Even our vegetables are more edible than we think. (Sweet potato leaves and pea shoots are edible) I’m sure there are many more, too, that I’ve missed.
I love to eat the flowers of dahlias as a salad, they grow better in the heat of summer than actual lettuces in my area! They also have different tastes in the different varieties.
I grow nine star perennial sprouting broccoli (little cauliflower heads, much creamier), welsh onions (also called japanese bunching onions) and cutting celery. The broccoli is so much easier to grow than cauliflower and the cutting celery gives me celery for about 9 months of the year! They thrived during the drought we had last year in Cornwall UK.
I've just bought nine star seeds. Looking forward to growing them for the first time.
@@Cheriesgardenvegplot you're in for a treat!
Could you let us know where you get the cutting celery? I would love to grow that.
@@sabirul-haq1154 Real Seeds a great little organisation.
@@imogenveneear1935Thankyou for your prompt reply. Definitely going to buy some seeds from them Love celery
Thank you for yet another amazing video:)
I'm a new gardener and actually aiming to prioritise perennials - although I'm currently trying to grow apple trees from seed so we'll see how that goes!
Thanks for sharing.
Thanks for watching☺️
@HuwRichards I've been following you since before your first book came out.
I planed 50 Rhubarb plants last year unfortunately vine weevil wiped out most of them and other perennials like blueberry and Raspberry plants are vulnerable to weevil. I think Artichokes are a great perennial as they multiply so quickly.
I expect food prices to soar in the coming years as food production is being replaced with rewilding and green energy.
Such a good mindset, something I need to be thinking more about!
Glad you've also joined the szechuan-pepper train! Love mine, leaves are nice as well.
An added benefit of perennial (trees and shrubs) are also that they are able to create beneficial microclimates in your garden; by creating shade or sheltered areas, providing a habitat for beneficial wildlife, etc. Last winter my fruit trees really helped with keeping the ground dry in the excessive rainfall. I am more and more trying to incorporate the two together so my annuals and perenials benefit from each other.
Thanks for including slugs
Which perennials are good in shade?
Outstanding as usual Huw.
I appreciate that!
A couple of videos ago you was talking about about growing willow for wood chips what sort of willow was it ?
It's so funny how alike our thinking and likes are.
Take care xx
Very nice ❤️
Can I ask the species of peppercorn tree and where you got it from? Thanks
I couldn’t see from the video, but are your apricot and peach trees in your poly tunnel in a big pot or in the ground? 😊
I have what they've called "miniature blueberry " bushes. They're grown specifically to grow in pots.
I risked a bit of them for cuttings and so far so good. Apparently I need another variety (I think) to set fruit, but I don't know for sure.
Boysenberries are definitely perennials, and definitely need pruning or they make a jungle. Berries are delicious.
About the bleuberry s yes you need 2 variety s for pollination
I have 1 blueberry "Elliot" and got about 4 little punnets worth of berries from it last year. It must be self pollinating.
@@psiskyeven a self polinator produces more fruit when they have companion
Hey Huw, I always thought Apricot could grow in the UK in sunny spots without having to be undercover, is that not true? I was going to grow them myself, would love to hear how you've found it
Love this!! How cold does your tunnel get in winter? Pomegranate is something I'd love to grow.
Even in winter, if the sun is shining, it gets very hot in mine.
@psisky I worry more about how low it will get at night. Most tunnels don't hold heat, so I'd think during cold days temps could get well below freezing in a tunnel at night regardless of how sunny the day may have been and I can't imagine a pomegranate surviving that. It mustn't freeze in his tunnel I'm guessing but II was interested to know the low.
Your garden always looks beautiful full of food. Mine? I have just been out to the carrots I sowed on 11th march then some more on 21st march only about 10 if that have come up. They are under fleece and damp with all the rain we have had. So I have just resown them. Can I justify the cost of seeds? What am i doing so wrong? What to do when you feel so despondent? Do you ever have awful failures?
Thank you for your channel nice to see someone succeed 😀
I do have your book and charles and try and follow them too
I have oh so many failures every year. Some things I really struggle with regularly, such as carrots and broccoli. Some things do really well for me, such as potatoes and strawberries.
I try to always see what all I can learn from the failures, so they don't feel like a total loss, and then I try to focus a lot on whatever successes I do have. Having many various plantings going all the time is the best way I've found towards addressing lots of failures, as with only a handful of things going on it's much more likely to end up with a more total failure and have a harder time finding much to celebrate.
Right now I've recovered a few spaces from last year's weed battles that I lost. I look at the places where my plants are winning and smile, focusing more on those than the areas where grass and weeds are currently winning the day.
Oh, and I have a lovely little pond that used to be a nasty old garbage pile covered with concrete and poison ivy. That pond is a great reminder of turning things around, now that it supports fish, frogs, toads, and much more. Having that reliable tiny little paradise is something I find supremely uplifting and somewhere I visit often, especially when I'm feeling low.
@@Zednor9 thank you very much for your reply. I will keep watching your videos. Keep trying and maybe this time my carrots will come up. Thank you so much.😀
Are you planning to plant wildflowers too?
I'm surprised stonefruit aren't ok outside in your climate. What is it that causes issues? Late frosts?
Often it’s late frosts getting the blossoms. The last frost dates in the UK can be as late as May, and stone fruit blossoms start in March.
I planted garlic last November and they're looking good. When will they be ready for harvest?
june usually
Book says june, but you can harvest some as green mild garlic in may for immedeate use.
I will pull mine when the leaves yellow and start drooping.
I’m leaning towards this more and more also because they are less appetizing as well to gophers here
Planted almost 30 fruit tree/bushes. Now I'm rigging stakes so I can cover with netting. Expecting a huge group of cicadas that damage fruit trees.
Also try planting sunchokes. Mine are a foot tall after 2 weeks. Put in containers due to being invasive. Research how to cook to prevent stomach issues
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"I'm driven by flavor" That's not the only reason you garden. And we both know it! 😆
I'd rather have a mini "orchard" of shrubs than planting annuals.
Wondering where this new desire to plant fruit trees is coming from?🧐😂
Here's a stupid idea: growing lucerne (in the Americas and Spain called alfalfa) to use the material as a mulch? It's a short lived perennial which really should be considered more like an annual that runs for multiple years.
And don’t forget all the “weeds” that are edible
R u expecting a grid down situation Huw? Your videos seem to be leaning more towards the self preservation side.
You're morphing into Christian Westwood. AKA the ice age farmer😂
Another good thing about perennials is that people often don't recognize them as food....so the little garden raiders are less likely to take them.
I personally uses to steal peas as a child....
The admit defeat and change mindset is real for me. I have horrendous issues with insect damage. Most of it comes from my neighbors sections where they have old citrus trees infested with aphids and white-fly every season. No matter how much I try to eradicate them from my small garden, they get replenished from just over the fence.
I have to try and grow plants that are less vulnerable, less attractive to these pests.
My problem is red spider mite in the greenhouse. It's horrible.